4 Nov 2007

Wedding Season

just received a couple of wedding cardsone a punjabithe other a the mallu nair one

its funny how people word the cardmost cards have an invitationfrom grandparents of the groom or the bride's father

but in nair weddingsit is often the grandmother from the mother's sidewho send out the invitationsince they follow a matriarchal system

however over the yearsliving away from keralaeven their cards are trying to join the mainstream

now they include the grandparents from both sidesbut once all the addresses are includedits hell of a job for the graphics guyi mean there is so much text to grapple with

so much so thatin the mallu one i noticed thatthe ॐ (om) has been shifted to one sideto accommodate the infowhereas in the punjabi onethe ॐ (om) occupies the central spacein fact it is repeated twice over

however as far as designs goneither of them is a big dealcentrally aligned textwith uninspiring fontsi could have done these on MS Word